Archive for June 2016
30 Days Wild --day 25
Note–due to technical difficulties I mentioned in my previous post, I have been unable to post these every day. Thank you for reading and your patience! What is the fragrance of a rose, can you describe it? Is it like all summer in a day, a concentrated essence? The full moon of June is also... Read more »
30 Days Wild ---Day 24
My apologies for the technical difficulties, and not posting this yesterday. For the past two days, there has been uncertain wi-fi connection. There seems to be a problem with the phone wires, after the storms on Wednesday night. There were four confirmed tornadoes in central Illinois,storm damage in Kentucky and flooding in West... Read more »
30 Days Wild ---day 23
After the storms, morning fog at 6 a.m. For the moment, the wi-fi is working, but there may be problems with the connection. Maybe it is the weight of branches and wet leaves brushing against a power line. There have been power outages reported, and some flooding in the low-lying areas. Tornadoes reportedly touched down... Read more »
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30 Days Wild--day 22
12:00 p.m. — Summer rain on the leaves and grasses. It is a light rain, pleasantly dripping. This is a prelude to the heavy storms predicted for the afternoon and evening. The forecast is for severe weather—large hail, torrential rains, flash flooding, high wind gusts, power outages, thunder, lightning and possibility of self-organizing supercells that... Read more »
30 Days wild--day 21
Summer blue sky, and a monarch butterfly on a butterfly bush. The butterfly bush is a member of the milkweed family. Milkweeds are the favorite plants of the monarch butterflies and caterpillars. Once, there were fields of milkweeds, and the sky was filled with butterflies. Herbicides not only killed the milkweeds, but the bees and... Read more »
30 Days Wild--Day 20--Solstice!
Today is summer solstice. It is exact at 5:35 p.m. CDT. At this time, the sun reaches its northernmost point in our sky. In the Northern hemisphere, astronomical summer begins. For thousands of years, humans have celebrated the sun, the cycles of the solstices and equinoxes. Crowds still gather at Stonehenge today. Here is a... Read more »
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30 Days Wild--Day 19
The summer solstice is almost here. The exact time will be June 20 at 5:34 p.m. CDT . There will also be a full moon, the first full moon at the summer solstice since 1967! You can read more about the June solstice full moon at EarthSky. Tonight, there is an almost-full moon, a... Read more »
30 Days Wild--Day 18
What is that color, the light through the leaves? This green, illuminated, could be the inspiration of stained glass windows. Overhead, the trees arch like cathedrals. In Japanese, there is a word, komorebi, to describe the dappled light and shadow of the leaves. It is a beautiful word, perhaps untranslatable. It is a description of... Read more »
30 Days Wild -- day 17
This post is inspired by my fellow blogger Aquinas Wired, and his poetic comment to a previous post. You can read it here. The garden is full of white butterflies. They are called common cabbage butterflies, but they also seem to like the ornamental grasses. The butterflies are like white flowers fluttering in the sun.... Read more »
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30 Days wild --Day 16
June 15, and still light at 9 p.m. The air is heavy and expectant. The leaves sound like rain. Is that the sound of distant thunder? In the garden, blinking lights. The first fireflies of the season! By day, the firefly is an ordinary-looking insect. But in the evening, they become quite extraordinary. They are... Read more »
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